Venezuela finds Trillions of cubic yards of Natural Gas, off shore.

[52ndStreet]

I read on the bbc news that Venezuela has recently found Trillions of cubic yards of natural Gas off shore.

 

[DonKayrouz]

Nice, this will help them get out of the debt problem

 

[Mr. H.]

Maybe Hug Chav will liquify it and ship it to the U.S. east coast. He's such a philanthropist.

 

[Toro]

BFD

There is at least 130 years of natural gas that we know of in the US, much of which has become accessible through new technologies to unlock deposits in shale.

There is also something like 1 trillion barrels of oil in shale in the US. When we figure out how to crack that nut, we'll be spending more for a bottle of water than a gallon of gas.

 

[Ringel05]

I read on the bbc news that Venezuela has recently found Trillions of cubic yards of natural Gas off shore.

Sounds like Hugo was on a cruise eating beans.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

First, a moment of silence for all the velicoraptors (there must have been TRILLIONS of them) who gave their lives to become this imaginary "Fossil Fuel"

 

[DonKayrouz]

BFD

There is at least 130 years of natural gas that we know of in the US, much of which has become accessible through new technologies to unlock deposits in shale.

There is also something like 1 trillion barrels of oil in shale in the US. When we figure out how to crack that nut, we'll be spending more for a bottle of water than a gallon of gas.

Don't be so optimistic
The world can not continue to use oil the way it is doing nowadays
what about global warming ?

 

[Old Rocks]

First, a moment of silence for all the velicoraptors (there must have been TRILLIONS of them) who gave their lives to become this imaginary "Fossil Fuel"

A moment of silence for the total stupidity of this poster

 

[CrusaderFrank]

First, a moment of silence for all the velicoraptors (there must have been TRILLIONS of them) who gave their lives to become this imaginary "Fossil Fuel"

A moment of silence for the total stupidity of this poster

"Methane (CH4), the principal component of natural gas, is abundant in the outer solar system. It can be harvested from Mars, Titan, Jupiter, and many other planets and moons. With fuel waiting at the destination, a rocket leaving Earth wouldn't have to carry so much propellant, reducing the cost of a mission."

"The atmospheres of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all contain methane, and Pluto has frozen methane ice on its surface. New kinds of missions to these worlds may become possible with methane rockets."

NASA - Methane Blast

Above: This false-color radar image shows what researchers believe are lakes of liquid methane on Titan. Credit: NASA/ESA/Cassini.

Hey Genius, how many Velicorpators or green plants or fish are there in the outer solar system to decompose over geological time to make that methane?

Take your time.

 

[Douger]

Well. Unlike one of your fine corporations finding something, say, off of Floridastan, this will actually benefit the average Venezuelan quite well.

Go wave your flags. What ever happened with The Exxon Valdez ?
OH we can't talk about that. Gawd Blass Amurkastan.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Well. Unlike one of your fine corporations finding something, say, off of Floridastan, this will actually benefit the average Venezuelan quite well.

Go wave your flags. What ever happened with The Exxon Valdez ?
OH we can't talk about that. Gawd Blass Amurkastan.

I don't have a Gibberish/English dictionary handy.

Can someone translate this into English?

 

[Charles Stucker]

Hey Genius, how many Velicorpators or green plants or fish are there in the outer solar system to decompose over geological time to make that methane?

Haven't you ever heard of the dreaded Space Hamster?

Seriously, it is well recognized that methane is abundant throughout the universe, forming wherever carbon and hydrogen can be found. Thus methane deposits may be from gas trapped as the Earth formed.
Petroleum is a different matter. The commonly accepted theory is that the tiny single cell organisms which form the basis for modern life died and the "fatty" molecules they used to store energy are what we find as petroleum today; far more biomass has existed as single cell organisms than mutlitcellular ones over the history of the Earth. A new theory has arisen in the last twenty or so years that the petroleum may instead be the result of heat/pressure acting on trapped methane.
Which is correct? No one can be completely certain, but attempts to find oil where the competing "trapped methane" theory predicts have not, to my knowledge, born fruit.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Hey Genius, how many Velicorpators or green plants or fish are there in the outer solar system to decompose over geological time to make that methane?

Haven't you ever heard of the dreaded Space Hamster?

Seriously, it is well recognized that methane is abundant throughout the universe, forming wherever carbon and hydrogen can be found. Thus methane deposits may be from gas trapped as the Earth formed.
Petroleum is a different matter. The commonly accepted theory is that the tiny single cell organisms which form the basis for modern life died and the "fatty" molecules they used to store energy are what we find as petroleum today; far more biomass has existed as single cell organisms than mutlitcellular ones over the history of the Earth. A new theory has arisen in the last twenty or so years that the petroleum may instead be the result of heat/pressure acting on trapped methane.
Which is correct? No one can be completely certain, but attempts to find oil where the competing "trapped methane" theory predicts have not, to my knowledge, born fruit.

Yeah, well that still fails to explain why there's hydrocarbon molecules as complex as benzene in the upper atmosphere of Jupiter.

Is is just poor little Earth that's incapable of having hydrocarbon molecules without the fiction of "Fossil fuels"?

 

[mdn2000]

Well. Unlike one of your fine corporations finding something, say, off of Floridastan, this will actually benefit the average Venezuelan quite well.

Go wave your flags. What ever happened with The Exxon Valdez ?
OH we can't talk about that. Gawd Blass Amurkastan.

Venuzula's people suffer under Chavez, this oil will mean nothing to the average Venezuelan.

What is notable is that they did not find a trillion solar panels or an undiscovered windfarm.